Florence Ashley
@floralashes.bsky.social
Transfeminine jurist and bioethicist | Ass. prof at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law | Clerked at Supreme Court of Canada | florenceashley.com | they/them/that bitch | ✡︎
Saw a “the Rothschilds orchestrated the coup in Venezuela” post and, like, we’re truly digging in the archives, eh?
January 6, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Saw a “the Rothschilds orchestrated the coup in Venezuela” post and, like, we’re truly digging in the archives, eh?
Here’s various midrash for this parashah:
Levites were not enslaved in Egypt, unlike the other tribes.
Israelites who didn’t work enough were immured between layers of bricks.
Job was the one who first encouraged Pharaoh to kill all Israelite boys; other counsellors were Balaam and Reuel/Jethro.
Levites were not enslaved in Egypt, unlike the other tribes.
Israelites who didn’t work enough were immured between layers of bricks.
Job was the one who first encouraged Pharaoh to kill all Israelite boys; other counsellors were Balaam and Reuel/Jethro.
January 6, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Here’s various midrash for this parashah:
Levites were not enslaved in Egypt, unlike the other tribes.
Israelites who didn’t work enough were immured between layers of bricks.
Job was the one who first encouraged Pharaoh to kill all Israelite boys; other counsellors were Balaam and Reuel/Jethro.
Levites were not enslaved in Egypt, unlike the other tribes.
Israelites who didn’t work enough were immured between layers of bricks.
Job was the one who first encouraged Pharaoh to kill all Israelite boys; other counsellors were Balaam and Reuel/Jethro.
There’s a midrash that says Moses was chosen to liberate the Israelites because he was an asshole by nature but overcame it.
January 6, 2026 at 2:15 AM
There’s a midrash that says Moses was chosen to liberate the Israelites because he was an asshole by nature but overcame it.
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I actually didn't think it was possible to get 94% of Americans to agree on anything.
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
January 5, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I actually didn't think it was possible to get 94% of Americans to agree on anything.
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There's a rising faction of the legal academy that stays quiet when their MAGAdemic colleagues produce fraudulent psuedo-scholarship in service to the cruelest aspects of Trump's agenda ... then leap in to police the discourse when their progressive colleagues criticize those MAGAdemics too bluntly.
January 5, 2026 at 3:43 PM
There's a rising faction of the legal academy that stays quiet when their MAGAdemic colleagues produce fraudulent psuedo-scholarship in service to the cruelest aspects of Trump's agenda ... then leap in to police the discourse when their progressive colleagues criticize those MAGAdemics too bluntly.
Let them have (academic) smut! 🌈🥰
And honestly you did an incredible job with it! The blend of those things you use in Gender/Fucking functions to pin down things that are not otherwise easily expressed in a non-fiction theory book. It was easily one of the best things I read last year!
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Let them have (academic) smut! 🌈🥰
You know what slaps? The Biblica Hebraica Stuggartensia Reader’s Edition.
It’s all in Hebrew but it has a glossary of all common words and footnotes for all the less common words, as well as a lot of information about verb tenses, etc.
It’s all in Hebrew but it has a glossary of all common words and footnotes for all the less common words, as well as a lot of information about verb tenses, etc.
January 5, 2026 at 1:53 AM
You know what slaps? The Biblica Hebraica Stuggartensia Reader’s Edition.
It’s all in Hebrew but it has a glossary of all common words and footnotes for all the less common words, as well as a lot of information about verb tenses, etc.
It’s all in Hebrew but it has a glossary of all common words and footnotes for all the less common words, as well as a lot of information about verb tenses, etc.
The piel of חזק used when God “hardens” Pharaoh’s heart could be interpreted as helping harden rather than causing to harden, much in the same way as the piel of ילד refers to helping someone give birth (ie the act of a midwife).
January 5, 2026 at 1:40 AM
The piel of חזק used when God “hardens” Pharaoh’s heart could be interpreted as helping harden rather than causing to harden, much in the same way as the piel of ילד refers to helping someone give birth (ie the act of a midwife).
As someone who wrote a book mixing erotica and theory, I big times agree.
Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.
January 5, 2026 at 1:27 AM
As someone who wrote a book mixing erotica and theory, I big times agree.
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Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.
January 4, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.
Sometimes I want to quote tweet stuff with Talmudic references but then I feel weird and don’t because I know how much I’d hate people to quote tweet my stuff with random religious stuff.
My wife and I went out to lunch today.
My wife: "What is the quality that makes you want to be friends with someone, TK?"
Me: "Kindness. It's always been kindness. If I see someone acting kind to others, I want to be friends with them."
My wife: "What is the quality that makes you want to be friends with someone, TK?"
Me: "Kindness. It's always been kindness. If I see someone acting kind to others, I want to be friends with them."
January 5, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Sometimes I want to quote tweet stuff with Talmudic references but then I feel weird and don’t because I know how much I’d hate people to quote tweet my stuff with random religious stuff.
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Also: I think the observation that a lot of people leave conservative evangelism and try to produce that same evangelical experience with their leftist politics is true
Sometimes the guiding political habits don’t come from their politics
Sometimes the guiding political habits don’t come from their politics
some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar
Also always true
January 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Also: I think the observation that a lot of people leave conservative evangelism and try to produce that same evangelical experience with their leftist politics is true
Sometimes the guiding political habits don’t come from their politics
Sometimes the guiding political habits don’t come from their politics
(His name means, among other things, “excess” or “a lot.”)
January 5, 2026 at 12:29 AM
(His name means, among other things, “excess” or “a lot.”)
Say what you want about Moses’ father-in-law, but he’s a lot.
January 5, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Say what you want about Moses’ father-in-law, but he’s a lot.
There’s a common word in the Torah, כלי, and it’s variously translated as vessel, weapon, etc.
But to anyone who, like me, has played many fantasy RPGs, it soon becomes obvious that it generally obeys the usage rules of the video game term “item.” 😆
But to anyone who, like me, has played many fantasy RPGs, it soon becomes obvious that it generally obeys the usage rules of the video game term “item.” 😆
January 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
There’s a common word in the Torah, כלי, and it’s variously translated as vessel, weapon, etc.
But to anyone who, like me, has played many fantasy RPGs, it soon becomes obvious that it generally obeys the usage rules of the video game term “item.” 😆
But to anyone who, like me, has played many fantasy RPGs, it soon becomes obvious that it generally obeys the usage rules of the video game term “item.” 😆
Moses is a trans man. He has a bosom (חיק), as attested in Exodus 4:6.
January 5, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Moses is a trans man. He has a bosom (חיק), as attested in Exodus 4:6.
Another pun that translations thoroughly miss—in Exodus 3:22 when we are told that they will strip/plunder the Egyptians, the word used has the same root as the word “deliver” used for Moses and God freeing Israelites.
As they are delivered, they’ll “deliver” the Egyptians of their possessions.
As they are delivered, they’ll “deliver” the Egyptians of their possessions.
January 5, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Another pun that translations thoroughly miss—in Exodus 3:22 when we are told that they will strip/plunder the Egyptians, the word used has the same root as the word “deliver” used for Moses and God freeing Israelites.
As they are delivered, they’ll “deliver” the Egyptians of their possessions.
As they are delivered, they’ll “deliver” the Egyptians of their possessions.
“And Moses was shepherding the flock of Yitro, his groom.” (Exodus 3:1)
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January 4, 2026 at 10:57 PM
“And Moses was shepherding the flock of Yitro, his groom.” (Exodus 3:1)
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Truly funny how Moses—whom everyone presumably knows is the grandson of the Pharaoh—tries to intervene in a fight and gets asked something like: “Who the fuck died and made YOU king?!?”
January 4, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Truly funny how Moses—whom everyone presumably knows is the grandson of the Pharaoh—tries to intervene in a fight and gets asked something like: “Who the fuck died and made YOU king?!?”
Moses’ name means “Pulling-Out.” Just saying. 😆
January 4, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Moses’ name means “Pulling-Out.” Just saying. 😆
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You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.
January 4, 2026 at 7:01 PM
You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.
It’s also fascinating because you can totally see how they got from there to the common translation of “numerous.”
Bones are strong/solid, so it becomes a word for being strong/solid. But within an Ancient Near East context, the strength/solidity of a people was mainly numbers, hence “numerous.”
Bones are strong/solid, so it becomes a word for being strong/solid. But within an Ancient Near East context, the strength/solidity of a people was mainly numbers, hence “numerous.”
“And the children of Israel … became very very bony.” -Exodus 1:7
January 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM
It’s also fascinating because you can totally see how they got from there to the common translation of “numerous.”
Bones are strong/solid, so it becomes a word for being strong/solid. But within an Ancient Near East context, the strength/solidity of a people was mainly numbers, hence “numerous.”
Bones are strong/solid, so it becomes a word for being strong/solid. But within an Ancient Near East context, the strength/solidity of a people was mainly numbers, hence “numerous.”
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Honestly the right cheese, with honey, on bread is really good. I understand why they would wander a while for that.
January 4, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Honestly the right cheese, with honey, on bread is really good. I understand why they would wander a while for that.
Reminder that the “milk” in the “land of milk and honey” was cheese, and that the “honey” was actually fruit syrup. You’ve been lied to.
January 4, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Reminder that the “milk” in the “land of milk and honey” was cheese, and that the “honey” was actually fruit syrup. You’ve been lied to.